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¹ Paul the presoner of Iesu Christ and brother Timotheus.Vnto Philemon the beloved and oure helper² and to the beloved Appia and to Archippus oure felowe soudier and to the congregacion of thy housse.³ Grace be with you and peace from God oure father and from the Lorde Iesus Christ.⁴ I thake my God makinge mencio all wayes of the in my prayers⁵ when I heare of thy love and fayth which thou hast towarde the Lorde Iesu and towarde all saynctes:⁶ so that the fellisshippe that thou hast in the fayth is frutefull thorow knowledge of all good thinges which are in you by Iesus Christ.⁷ And we have great ioye and consolacion over thy love: for by the (brother) the saynctes hertes are comforted.

⁸ Wherfore though I be bolde in Christ to enioyne the that which becometh the:⁹ yet for loves sake I rather beseche the though I be as I am eve Paul aged and now in bondes for Iesu Christes sake.¹⁰ I beseche the for my sonne Onesimus whom I begat in my bondes¹¹ which in tyme passed was to the vnproffetable: but now proffetable bothe to the and also to me¹² whom I have sent home agayne. Thou therfore receave him that is to saye myne awne bowels¹³ whom I wolde fayne have retayned with me that in thy stede he myght have ministred vnto me in ye bondes of the gospell.¹⁴ Neverthelesse without thy mynde wolde I doo nothinge that yt good which springeth of the shuld not be as it were of necessitie but willingly.¹⁵ Haply he therfore departed for a season yt thou shuldest receave him for ever¹⁶ not nowe as a servaut: but above a servaunt I meane a brother beloved specially to me: but how moche more vnto the both in the flesshe and also in the Lorde?¹⁷ Yf thou count me a felowe receave him as my selfe.¹⁸ Yf he have hurt the or oweth the ought that laye to my charge.¹⁹ I Paul have writte it with myne awne hode. I will recompence it. So that I do not saye to the howe that thou owest vnto me eve thyne awne silfe.²⁰ Even so brother let me enioye the in the Lorde. Comforte my bowels in the Lorde.²¹ Trustinge in thyne obediece I wrote vnto the knowynge that thou wilt do more then I saye for.²² Moreover prepare me lodgynge: for I trust thorow ye helpe of youre prayers I shalbe geven vnto you.²³ Ther salute ye Epaphras my felowe presoner in Christ Iesu²⁴ Marcus Aristarchus Demas Lucas my helpers.²⁵ The grace of oure Lorde Iesu Christ be with youre spretes. Amen.